811.7490F/5–545: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:55 p.m.]
4554. Substance of the Department’s 3384, April 30, 6 p.m., has been communicated in writing to the head of the General Department10 [Page 1021] of the Foreign Office, which is the department handling telecommunications, and the matter has also been taken up orally with Hankey of the Eastern Department who said that he would do all he could to see that our proposals are given a full and reasonable hearing but that despite the general desire of the Foreign Office to follow a policy of sincere Anglo-American collaboration in the Near and Middle East he frankly foresaw difficulty in bringing British thinking around to our point of view in this particular case. We also intend approaching Campbell, Supervising Under Secretary for Eastern Affairs, with a view to allowing no room for doubt as to the importance which we attach to this matter.
Sent Department as 4554, repeated to Jidda as Embassy’s 4.
- Rodney A. Gallop.↩